Nerd Alert
I think I may officially be the nerdiest person on earth.
I was at the bookstore today. While there, I thought to myself, "I wonder if there are any new and exciting grammar books."
Yes, I really did.
But it gets nerdier. Because there was indeed an exciting (and newish) grammar book:
I actually got excited by, bought, and plan to spend my afternoon reading a book on the history and lost art of sentence diagramming.
All hail the Queen of the Nerds.
5 Comments:
You might also want to check out the Deluxe Transitive Vampire ;) No sentence diagramming, alas.
Wow. I feel ya, dude. I'm that way with books about linguistics. :)
i might have to get this myself. i'm intrigued by the bit about diagramming authors' sentences and seeing what it reveals about them. plus, we never learned diagramming in school :(
Wow, I don't want to say that you are a nerd, but WOW.
Ah, word diagrams! I haven't thought of those since grad school.
(Also, thanks for stopping by my blog tonight!)
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